Terrence Malick's ambitious and controversial film is up for an Academy Award this year. It was both booed and cheered before it won the Palme d'Or at Cannes. The film raises deep existential questions about the meaning of life, death, and pain, and we managed to find the perfect guests to talk about it. My hunch is that a lot of the people who walked out on The Tree of Life might stick around to hear what Barbara Newman and David Sterritt had to say about it.
Guest
David Sterritt, film scholar and critic, Chairman of the National Society of Film Critics, and former film professor at Columbia University
Barbara Newman, Professor of English, Religion, and Classics at Northwestern University
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